Coal and Oil Polluters Dominate ALEC Conference
By Nick Surgey of The Progressive Inc. and Connor Gibson of Greenpeace Who's pulling the strings at the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) conference in Dallas, Texas, this week?...
View Article'Right to Farm' or Right to Funnel Illegal Money Into Missouri Campaign?
Today, the Missouri Farmers Union sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture calling for a formal investigation into the potentially illegal use of federal pork check-off funds for a...
View ArticleWhat I Learned by Eating Less Meat
My friends at Vegan Grand Rapids were the ones who encouraged me to eat less meat. Always an animal lover, I found as I got older, I had more and more guilt knowing how food got to my plate. It's easy...
View ArticleThe Plain Bad Economics of Today's Energy Prices
Remember not so long ago when the IMF was treated with deep suspicion by the environmental community? Times are changing. The International Monetary Fund is now producing some important analyses...
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Climate Change This Week: The Jet Stream Run Amok, Cheap Wind and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. Daily Climate Change: Global Map of Unusual Temperatures, Aug 1, 2014 How unusual has the weather been? No one event is "caused" by...
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My Trip to Ecuador
I was recently part of a program called Sustainable Summer, whose mission is to "cultivate the next generation of environmental leaders though transformative study-abroad experiences and field-based...
View ArticleHow Did Western Civilization End? A Noted Historian Of Science Looks Back --...
"Nature always bats last." That old warning about our degrading environment no longer seems to apply. Now Nature bats every day. Drought, storms, melting ice and rising oceans -- the bad news is...
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Meatless Monday -- 'Cowspiracy:' The One Thing No One Talks About
Kip Andersen, co-producer/director of "Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret," considered himself to be an environmentalist. He recycled to reduce waste, took quick showers to save water, supported...
View ArticleOur Dysfunctional National Government Is Incapable of Building a Sustainable...
My Columbia University colleagues Bill Eimicke and Alison Miller recently joined me in authoring a new book entitled Sustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to A Cleaner Economy. If all goes...
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#DirtyDenier$ Day 1: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
The Senate is (sadly) full of climate deniers, but none of them is more dangerous than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). That's because Sen. McConnell possesses that dangerous combination...
View ArticleCurbing Methane Emissions Needs to Be the Law of the Land
Earlier this week, the White House held the last in a series of roundtable discussions on reducing methane emissions across the United States. I was one of five environmental leaders invited to attend,...
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Climate Change and the Meat on Your Plate
Unless you are a climate change denier, it is inconceivable to ignore one of the largest contributors to global climate change -- industrialized animal agriculture. Is it because humans feel the right...
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Extinction Sucks
Earlier this year, comic book superstar artist Phil Jimenez teamed up with a little-known writer, but big time animal rights activist, Scott Lope for a special, best-selling, two-issue story in Marvel...
View ArticleA Historic Week for Clean Air and Energy
Wow! I was confident that people would turn out to support the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan at last week's public hearings in Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Denver, and Washington, D.C.,...
View ArticleRoger Pielke, Jr. leaves FiveThirtyEight, and What It Means for Changing the...
Advocacy organizations like mine can sometimes get ourselves in a difficult position when we engage on a campaign that focuses on the media. As we determine our theory of change we have to sort through...
View ArticleOur Oceans Can't Wait Any Longer
Congress has now adjourned for the month of August with many issues still unaddressed. In the House of Representatives several key policy provisions remain in limbo - extending emergency unemployment...
View ArticleHow ALEC Fronts for Fossil Fuels
Even as the Environmental Protection Agency finally attempts to limit carbon dioxide pollution from coal plants, it is meeting resistance at the state level, thanks to a secretive campaign by the...
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Jefferson Woeste's Green Passion for Gardening: If Not Now When
By Nancy and James Chuda founders of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World Gardening is my therapy " A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in-- what more could he ask? A few flowers at his...
View ArticleI Ate Hershey's Kisses With Cocoa Farmers in the Ivory Coast
The above video of cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast tasting chocolate for the first time has been making its rounds, and, in fact, has been pointed out to me about eleven-thousand times already....
View ArticleAre Humans Inducing Epidemic Outbreaks?
When the Ebola virus first hits you, it starts with a headache. But with horrifying haste, it sets in like a stroke. Blood vessels break and intestines split open, turning internal organs into a toxic...
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